International Philosophy

Monty Python's classic skit of the Greeks vs. the Germans

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Monty
• Python
• Philosophy
• Socrates
• Plato
• Aquinas
• Aristotle
• Augustine

[mboschm]

and it WAS offsides!

[Cujo11]

lol I'm preparing for my final highschool exam and dying while watching this ! :D hilarious :D

[ummmerrrrummm]

This is how philosophy should be done!

[MrApostolosek]

@siminas4 it is still in use but slightly changed, it is Βρήκα meaning I found, I discovered, when Y comes after E it is pronounced as V or F, so in modern day greek, it took the form that I previously mentioned. With respects :)

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

The Pythons are essentially mad, without seeming so! This is no ordinary jest: Alone to call Aristotle the “sweeper” of Greek philosophy and “very much the man in form” is far too much and reveals a surplus classical education and knowledge; but sentences like “Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination” are way beyond normal!

[DBZparodier]

British humour at its finest!

By the way did anyone else notice that the goalkeeper (Leibniz) is in a different position in the original at 3:21 and in the replay at 3:55?

[ThePrinceofParthia]

And Confucius say 'Name go in book' lol



[TanoBrati]

@arvin91

He could take Voltaire with him to partner in central defense. Sartre and Camus as central midfielders, Rousseau (though Swiss-born) as the main forward, Diderot as left winger, Montaigne behind the striker, Levi-Straus on right wing. All I have missing are the full backs, the 'keeper, and the coach. Maybe for coaching we could have a special dispensation and put Napoleon ?

[arvin91]

@TanoBrati But Descartes cant take on a team all by himself?

[TanoBrati]

So will the Greeks face the French in the final?

[Jaboolanee]

The coachs of the teams...

Deutschland: Martin Luther

Griecheland: Thales Von Milet